Quality Engineer - Sterling Engineering
Lincolnshire, IL
About the Job
Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Lincolnshire, IL area
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Overview:
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Job Summary:
The Quality Engineer ensures continuous quality compliance during manufacturing operations. They monitor ongoing manufacturing operations to ensure quality issues are quickly addressed, provide quality alerts, and lead containment and purges when required. Lead the development of the inspection strategy for receiving inspection, pre-ship inspection, and out-of-box-audits. Ensure Certificates of Compliance are created and maintained, including documentation of deviations. Ensure creation and maintenance of manufacturing quality history documentation, as required.
Job Duties:
- Build Quality Awareness in Operations by ensuring effectiveness of training and inspections.
- Educate operators and production associations on quality and compliance procedures.
- Ensures compliance of customer requirements, industry standards, and safety in the workplace.
- Primary interface with customers on quality related matters, as well as lead to improve incoming customer inquiries to reduce Return Material Authorizations (RMAs).
- Participate and support regulatory and customer audits at site.
- Understands and follows company quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance.
- Monitors their own work to ensure quality standards are met, as well as look for opportunities to improve quality and eliminate waste at work.
- Delivers work in a way that eliminates scrap or rework. Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when needed.
- Drive Proactive Continuous Improvement on Yield & Quality Metrics by designing templates for documents, file types, and document databases.
- Drive cross-functional teams to deliver continual improvement activities for internal processes deliverables.
- Provide Supervision to Quality Assurance Inspectors and Technicians.
- Guide Quality Assurance operators, group leaders, and technicians in ongoing quality improvement activities.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering field required.
- Relevant previous work experience in Quality Engineering.
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Strong ability to identify and solve problems proactively using structured problem-solving tools, including making timely and effective decisions.
- Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze, interpret, validate, and communicate data to key stakeholders.
- Ability to become a Subject Matter Expert for an assigned system or process.\
- Ability to operate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
- Ability to travel occasionally, if needed.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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Source : Sterling Engineering